Electronic book survey 10/11
contest O'Reilly & Associates wants to know how you want to see books delivered electronically. The first 200 respondants get a "Powered by O'Reilly" t-shirt.

ASP DevCon coming in 2 weeks 10/8
conference Join 500 of the world's best ASP developers at the Fall ASP DevCon in Atlanta. Only two weeks left to register. Rooms are filling quickly, so get your name in soon.

ASP-Edit website launched 10/8
new site Tashcom has launched a dedicated website for its Active Server Pages development tool, ASP-Edit, of which a new version will be released in the very near future. More details at the company website.

Activate your links 10/8
article ASP 101 has published a new article on how to automatically link every http:// in a string.

Format any pone number 10/8
article ASP 101 has published "Format Any Phone Number", an article that demonstrates how to format any phone number to (XXX) XXX-XXXX.

Microsoft ships Shiloh beta 10/7
article Ten months since releasing its SQL Server 7.0 database software, Microsoft has designed an upgrade, code-named Shiloh, that the company hopes will better compete with rivals Oracle, IBM, Informix, and Sybase.

Advanced Data Shaping Techniques 10/7
article In a previous article, 4GuysFromRolla.com showed how to use data shaping to return a recordset as an element of another recordset. This new article discusses some of the more advanced options concerning data shaping: namely, how to have multiple children and grandchildren.

iisCARTship 1.0 released 10/7
new iisCART has announced iisCARTship 1.0, an ASP component based e-commerce solution that gives developers, and ultimately consumers, the choice of shipping companies with over 25 shipping services from the 3 largest shipping companies and, more importantly, redundancy should a given companies system be inaccessible. $55.